MADRID, Spain.- Four Cuban political prisoners staged a protest demanding their rights in the Quivicán prison, Mayabeque province, where they are being held for their participation in the historic demonstrations on July 11, 2021 (11J).
Is about Roberto Perez FonsecaAbel Lázaro Machado Conde, Yasiel Martínez Carrasco and Alien Molina.
During their demonstration they wore white pullovers with phrases of “Patria y Vida”, “Cuba de Luto” and “Libertad”.
“With the protest they asked for medical assistance, religious assistance, freedom for political prisoners and an end to famines in prisons,” he told Radio Television Martí Lisset Fonseca, mother of Roberto Pérez Fonseca, sentenced to ten years in prison.
“My son has not called me, I do not know if they have suspended his telephone communications. What I did learn from other inmates is that they changed detachments, him and others. Roberto was not beaten because of the protest, but the others were, the first to attack them were the commoners and then the prison guards,” denounced the lady.
At the Quivicán prison, at least 30 9/11 protesters remain incarcerated.
According to the NGO Prisoners Defenders, more than 1,000 people are imprisoned in Cuban jails for political reasons.
This same week fifty relatives of Cuban political prisoners signed a letter addressed to Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, asking her to intercede for their release.
In the letter, delivered by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), the signatories also denounced that the regime’s political prisoners are subjected to starvation, intimidation, beatings and extreme punishment; as well as they lack medical attention and their relatives are constantly threatened.
